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Johannes Engelmann, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Elisabeth, and children (Johann Wilhelm, age 14; Margaretha, age 10; Anna Eva, age 6; Heinrich Peter, age 3-months) are recorded on the 1767 census of Laub in Household No. 31 along with stepson Johannes Flach (age 18). They had settled in Laub on 19 August 1767.

Daughter Maria Margaretha Engelmann, wife of Heinrich Dellos, is recorded on the 1798 census of Laub in Household No. Lb17.

The 1767 census records that Johannes Engelmann came from the German village of Reichenborn in the Nassau-Weilburg region.

Philipp Aulmann, a cobbler (Schuhmacher), his wife Anna Elisabeth, and daughter Maria Dorothea (age 6) are recorded on the 1767 census of Laub in Household No. 35. They had settled there on 19 August 1767.

Widower Philipp Aulmann and his daughters are recorded on the 1798 census of Laub in Household No. 31.

The 1767 census records that Philipp Aulmann came from the German village of Waltz [?] in the Nassau-Idstein region.

There are no known surviving male lines of this family among the Volga German colonies.

Georg Blau, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth arrived from Lübeck at the port of Oranienbaum on 4 July 1766 aboard the ship Der Jager under the command of Skipper Gabriel Wild.

Johann Georg Blau, a farmer, and his wife Elisabeth Katharina are recorded on the 1767 census of Laub in Household No. 19. They had settled there on 12 July 1767.

The Oranienbaum passenger list records that Georg Blau came from the German region of Nassau. The 1767 census records that he came from the German village of Burbach in the Darmstadt region.

Orphan Johann Bernhardt (age 16) is recorded on the 1767 census of Laub in Household No. 59 along with Widow Anna Dorothea Kagel and her family and a note that the Kagel family relocated to the colony of Straub in 1768. It is presumed that Johann Bernhardt relocated to Straub as well. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Bernhardt and Kagel families.

The 1767 census does not record from where Johann Bernhardt came.

Orphan Fritz Antor (age 4) is recorded on the 1767 census of Laub in Household No. 50 along with the Joseph Gerwelheim family. The 1767 census does not record a relationship between the Antor and Gerwelheim families.

The 1767 census does not record from where Fritz Antor came.

Friedrich Stolz, a craftsman (Handwerker), and his wife Elisabeth settled in the Volga German colony of Reinhard on 25 May 1767. They are recorded there on the 1767 census in Household No. 25.

In 1798, Friedrich Stolz moved from Reinhard to Saratov.

The 1767 census records that Friedrich Stolz came from the German village of Steinitz in the Mecklenburg region.

Heinrich Bickart and his family are recorded on the 1798 census of Preuss in Household No. Ps78.

Some translations record this surname as Picard, but contemporary generations use the surname of Bickart.